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Originally Posted by bum3
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I read a lot of excuses that make no sense. Sounds like you were a really uniformed player back then. Isn't the point to play like back then? Not to play like you're using cheat codes? My friends thought it was great to put in cheat codes and use bugs to get ahead. I always thought they were unskilled. What p99 did do was let players get stuck in time and give rule benders and non-intended loopholes to be used to trivialize content. Everyone on live moved on. Where as p99 players stayed to "perfect" these ideals to where they became the norm. What I find funny is back then.. people had legitimate excuses for trains... shitty netz, LDs... today people train just as much without as many legitimate reasons. Might be less trains if enchanters had CC up instead of a full line of spells solely for pet charming. Cause those caster groups in lguk last night that trained 4x in a hour is pretty common.
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If you want to play like we did back then:
- Go create your main character and put your starting points into stats that really don't matter for your character. No one was smart enough to min/max and made all kinds of stupid decisions back then.
- Randomly disconnect your internet in the middle of playing to simulate shitty dial up internet.
- Don't do many turn in quests since they weren't broadly known about at the time.
- Don't use any maps on the Wiki unless you manually print them out and keep them in a binder. Don't use the Wiki at all while playing for that matter...most information wasn't broadly known for at least a few months post-launch, so you can't use it to look up NPCs, quests, loot, leveling or class guides, etc.
- You can't Alt+Tab while playing, or otherwise play in Windowed mode, because that wasn't feasible back on classic era Live.
- No Netflix or other video or music streaming services allowed to entertain yourself while grinding. Standard cable or reading books only.
- Don't follow the traditional high ZEM EXP path since those didn't exist at the time.
- If you want to play a Tank, play a Warrior since many people didn't know how much better the hybrid tanks were. So you need to simulate that lack of knowledge.
- Play a Wizard and a Rogue as well, since they were much more popular during the Classic era.
- Don't use Splitpaw in your higher levels since original Splitpaw was a much lower level dungeon.
- Don't use a pet (if you have one) in a group because many groups thought pets stole EXP in a group (if a group asks you to summon a pet, refuse).
- Don't join the HHK Goblins group because it's unclassic in terms of how fast the EXP is (back in the day it was 3 or 4 different camps). Since it's only 1 camp on P99, you can't join because it would be an unclassic experience for you.
- Look up all the mistaken knowledge about buff effects from back in the day and play as though that knowledge is true. People thinking STR buffs increased haste, Harmony could increase mana regeneration, etc. etc. etc.
- That and so many other things you need to do in order to truly play like you're having a classic experience.
Do all that stuff, and then you can come here and tell us that things need to be made unclassic via a nerf because they are creating an "unclassic atmosphere"